A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Esprios Classics)

Henry David Thoreau (July 12 1817 - May 6 1862) was an American naturalist essayist poet and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist he is best known for his book Walden a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings and his essay Civil Disobedience (originally published as Resistance to Civil Government) an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books articles essays journals and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature personal experience pointed rhetoric symbolic meanings and historical lore while displaying a poetic sensibility.